Microsoft has just announced that Windows 8 has gone gold - or, in Redmond parlance, RTM. "Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners. They can now begin preparing new Windows 8 PCs and devices they'll introduce starting with General Availability." Anybody got a spare MSDN account?

Like Sinofsky you probably sit in twitter all day and can't conceive of how many problems this will cause power users and developers.

We actually use the start menu for passing parameters to our customer internal software. I will actually type in the program along with the parameter while continuing to look at code. Windows 8 takes me away from my focus and sticks me into an animated ad screen. WHEEEEEE!

Oh and the start screen makes a complete mess of my start menu. No I cannot 'pin everything to the taskbar' as I have numerous utilities that I only use a few times a year. If I wanted to make a complete fucking mess of them then I would just make hundreds of shortcuts on my desktop like an asshead.

IF I thought Windows 8 would appeal to grammies I might be neutral but all the feedback says otherwise. The Windows 8 blog is highly censored because so many developers/builders/msces are yelling about how everyone they have tried it on hates it and it's a freaking STOOPED strategy anyways to try and catch up with the iPad by needlessly pissing off enterprise.

Then there is the whole user retraining cost issue which you will read about when enterprise takes a piss on this POS and demands Ballmer's head.

Not that I expect you to listen anymore than the MS reps that just want our money. Well they won't get it next year so maybe the M$ fanboy club will buy enough $600 surface tablets to make up for it. Not really, MSFT stock is going to dive over this bullshit.